TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER

Catholic. Certified wife guy. Father of a snork. Augustine fan. Photographer. Videographer. Professional goofball. Doing my best.

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

*in confession*

Me: Forgive me, I did the thing.

Priest: You shouldn't do the thing. You are forgiven, now go and don't do the thing again.

*a week later at confession*

Me: You're never gonna guess what happened

[Zac Mabry @ZacMabry]

did the pope hurt your feelings by not being based enough? Grow up!

[Nasser @Nasser_Junior]

Talk like an AI artist #4

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

so glad we've laid off 30% of the national parks service to make room in the budget for this

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

SCOOP: Trump admin is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf.

The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects
https://t.co/iCgnL1sFon

[Fr. Harrison Ayre @FrHarrison]

one of the more revolutionary elements of Magnifica Humanitas is rooting data in the CST category of private property

[Alex Prompter @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[🅱️askerville 🇦🇪 @WB_Baskerville]

“Academics shouldn’t have to read the sources they cite” just the latest entry in the overwhelming theme of American life today: no one should ever have to do anything and nothing can be expected of them.

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

what's even the point of a search engine that doesn't search for anything

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles

• Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’

• Starts next Tuesday

(via @TechCrunch)

[theselongwars @theselongwars_]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

[G.S. Quay @hemingquay]

Augustine’s Confessions

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

octogenarians enjoying all the benefits of unfettered capitalism just to sleepwalk their country into feudalism would almost be funny if I wasn't currently raising children in said country

[Tyler Roney @TylerJRoney]

It’s that time of the year when a Midwesterner sees the current temperature outside is 75° but stop to question whether that’s 75° in a 90° way or 75° in a 60° way.

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

pain

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

BRETT KULAK ENDS THE SERIES 🚨

[Minnesota Twins @Twins]

me

[Sean Morrow @snmrrw]

fixed this for you

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

"we've made it better by making it worse" is just every tech company's motto these days

[TJ is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER @Noodle_45]

Android Auto uses Gemini now which means it takes 3 times as long to get directions somewhere and uses 30% more of your phone's battery